CCD Myths - East Antarctica

In east Antarctica, the sea ice sheets have been larger recently. Predictably this has been seized on by non believers (climate change deniers - or CCD’s as we know them) as evidence that climate change scriptures are incorrect.

The problem is the situation is bloody hopeless, this bloody cooling in certain areas and heating in others needs to be controlled. Now this planet we live on is lovely but its climate systems are in need of some management. We don't want to live in a place where the bloody hot and cold spots shift around. Local climates are supposed to stay where they were when we first accurately charted and observed them when we were planning to soot bomb the uninhabited ice caps to head off an ice age predicted for the 70's. We note from history that they have always moved around but now we can stop that, if we implement a good management plan.

I need to remind you that fossils of sea creatures have been found thousands of feet above the current (and now required to be stable) sea level. This tells us that if all the ice melts we are completely stuffed. Don't let CCD fruit loops tell you that land has been pushed up by tectonic plate movements, this is a myth. Don't let them tell you that shifting land masses over time effect sea levels and effect ocean currents causing climate change. These CCD crazies will also tell you that volcanic activity has an effect on climate and that volcanic activity is oblivious to atmospheric CO2 levels - they are wrong. I once heard one freak suggest that changing sea levels will cause sudden changes in land masses due to the massive weight redistribution. Luckily somebody shot that line of thinking down because it sounded like the book of revelation. Current management plans include relocation of residents within certain tolerances of current (and now required to be stable) sea levels but Atlantis type catastrophes are not within the scope or budget at this time.

Now remember if somebody challenges you to put an ice cube in a glass of water and mark the waterline with a waterproof marker and wait for the ice to melt to settle the blather about floating ice melting effecting sea levels. Don't try it - the physics is different in a glass of water than for the planet. Please leave the management of this complex stuff to the experts.